00:00A.J. Brown is now a Patriot.
00:02Yeah.
00:03And while Philadelphia's going to have a field day with that for a while,
00:06because they're going to turn your backs on your best wide receiver
00:09in the last 20 years in Philadelphia.
00:11No disrespect to Devontae Smith.
00:13And your wide receiving core is now very young.
00:15Yeah, Devontae's been underutilized, so he'll obviously become the number one.
00:20He becomes number one, right?
00:21Yeah.
00:21And they just drafted wide receiver in the first round.
00:24But there's a part of this story that I think is being left out.
00:29And I did it on radio yesterday.
00:30I feel like I have a responsibility to this audience to do it here.
00:33Okay.
00:34I think Dan Rossini should get credit for the story.
00:36Why?
00:37And I think Dan Rossini should have come out of the woodwork yesterday,
00:41out of mothballs yesterday, and put out a first tweet in four months.
00:45And it should have been a very simple tweet.
00:47And that is, as I first reported,
00:50the New England Patriots have acquired the rights to A.J. Brown
00:53and whatever the deal was, you know, a 20-28 first round pick,
00:56a fifth round next year.
00:57Oh, yeah.
00:58And just do it.
00:59And then it goes back to what I said during the Rossini stuff.
01:03Number one, it's her story.
01:04No one's going to dispute that.
01:05Nobody had A.J. Brown going to the Patriots other than Deanna Rossini.
01:10We know how she got it, but she got it.
01:12If you remember back in the day,
01:14the best Adam Schefter had was that he was going to the Rams.
01:18That was his report.
01:19And Rossini beat him on that.
01:20And the Rams, for the record, though, did make an offer.
01:24Before the draft.
01:25Right.
01:25And the Eagles said no because of the cap situation.
01:27Anyway, so here's the other thing that somebody in the media has to acknowledge.
01:33And I guess I'll be that Huckleberry because most of those guys don't like me anyway.
01:37Because I only tell the truth on this show, as you know.
01:40All I heard during the Rossini stuff with Mike Vrabel was how much all these insiders respect one another.
01:48How they look out for each other.
01:49How their colleagues and how, while they are in competition to beat each other, to breaking stories,
01:55there's nothing but a mutual amount of respect between Adam Schefter, Ian Rappaport,
02:01Gianna Rossini, Jordan Schultz, name your favorite insiders, Peter Schrager,
02:08all these people, men and women, that do a really good job bringing us the news of the NFL.
02:13And it was interesting to me yesterday that not one of them could help themselves.
02:19They all took credit for the breaking story.
02:21I'm first.
02:22My sources tell me.
02:24NFL sources tell me.
02:25Patriot sources tell me.
02:27Eagle sources tell me.
02:28And I'm sitting there as an independent observer with no dog in the fight.
02:33Saying to myself, you guys all got beaten to this story by Diana Rossini.
02:39And I don't think that's really up for debate.
02:41We can mock how she got the story.
02:43We know what her source was.
02:45We know how she got the story.
02:46But at the end of the day, she got it.
02:48All right?
02:49Now, she lost her job over it.
02:50But it's her story.
02:52What is wrong with you?
02:53Okay?
02:53And here's what bothers me.
02:54What is wrong with you?
02:55This notion that they all like each other and look out for each other and respect each other.
03:02They do.
03:02No, they don't.
03:03Yes, they do.
03:04They don't.
03:04Here's why.
03:05They draw a line.
03:05They had a chance yesterday to gather together in a unified pact and collectively say, as
03:14first reported by Diana Rossini of The Athletic.
03:18That's disgusting.
03:19A.J.
03:20Brown has been traded to the New England Patriots.
03:23No.
03:24Period.
03:24Stop.
03:25No.
03:25As you said, full stop.
03:26No, it's a comma.
03:27So, shame on you.
03:29It's a comma.
03:30Adam Schefter, Ian Rappaport, and all the other ones.
03:33All of you that came out yesterday and said, sources tell ESPN.
03:38Sources tell the NFL Network.
03:40Sources tell me.
03:41Sources tell me.
03:42Sources tell me.
03:44None of you had a source on this one.
03:46None of you had any idea that A.J. Brown was going to the Patriots until Diana Rossini
03:54suggested it.
03:55Why don't they have a source?
03:57They didn't have the source because they weren't sleeping with them.
04:00This is ridiculous.
04:01No.
04:01You're suggesting that they should be on board with this.
04:04No, I'm not.
04:04You are.
04:05I'm suggesting that they've probably done some things in their lives.
04:09Not that.
04:10To get stories that we wouldn't want to know about either.
04:13That.
04:13So, I'm not questioning how she got the story.
04:16I know how.
04:17It's why she lost her job.
04:19But you're a bunch of animals who eat their own.
04:22Not to give Diana Rossini the credit she truly deserves.
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